They leave their day jobs to play for no reward save the county’s honour. To Eastbourne, Cromer, Frinton and Hunstanton they come by train, car or bicycle and thus, across five days in July, the Aegon Summer County Cup remains as true to the concept of tennis for the love of the game as it did when

Andy Murray has decided to extend his coaching relationship with Amélie Mauresmo beyond its grass-court experiment into the pursuit of hard-court riches and beyond. Official confirmation will come in the next few days, but the 2013 Wimbledon champion has been joined at his Miami training base by

Novak Djokovic and Jelena Ristic are completing their five-star honeymoon, nursing hopes and dreams and revelling in the prospect of imminent parenthood. One of the guests at their sumptuous wedding has since climbed into his car for the 1,345-kilometre drive from Belgrade to Gstaad, Switzerland

Australian police have charged one man in Melbourne and are speaking to five more over allegations of a tennis match-fixing syndicate, involving players and linked to national and international matches. A 27-year-old was bailed by Victoria police yesterday on two charges of using “corrupt

Australian police have charged one man in Melbourne and are speaking to five more over an alleged attempt to fix tennis matches, inside the country and internationally. A 27-year-old was bailed by Victoria police today on two charges of using “corrupt information for betting purposes” as well as

Novak Djokovic made the media rounds yesterday and Boris Becker kept his distance, although he lives only a couple of streets from the All England Club. The German does not remember being fêted when he won Wimbledon at 17 as much as Djokovic was for the second time at 27. Perhaps the memory is

We marvelled at . . . the prodigious, unaffected style of Nick Kyrgios, the 19-year-old Australian, who saved nine match points in his second-round match against Richard Gasquet, of France, to win 10-8 in the fifth set, then, in the fourth round, sent Rafael Nadal, the world No 1 pre-tournament

Who is the Wimbledon champion? His name is known, obviously, but what is it that makes Novak Djokovic such an uncommon player? In the maelstrom of Sunday’s final, when the Centre Court was 90 per cent in the corner of his opponent, something stirred the 27-year-old Serb — it was nothing that could

Midway through the fifth set of a Wimbledon men’s final of true immensity, the mind wandered to how it might be if Novak Djokovic had to walk to the BBC microphone and explain how he had lost his fourth grand-slam tournament final in succession. A crackly, crippled voice, perhaps his head back to

David Kotyza has been the coach to Petra Kvitova for six years and in that time he has rarely been chased through tennis stadiums by the media, had a microphone pressed under his nose, debated with the rich and famous of the sport. Mention “super-coach” to him and his grizzly features would